Breaching of Gamtoos River Mouth - Jeffreys Bay, South Africa
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- Video clip of the breaching of the flooded Gamtoos River Mouth on 11 September 2018.
So it happened!!! The Gamtoos River Mouth has been manually breached. Earlier today the Kouga Municipal Manager finally obtained permission from the EC MEC after an intensified effort. The farmers suffering from flooded pastures were given permission to breach the mouth and they stepped up to the mammoth task with their amazing staff. In a matter of three hours, they dug a deep channel by spade. The channel might seem narrow and small at this stage, but the river is filled with millions of cubic meters of excess water and by late this afternoon flood water from the Groot River has been expected to reach the top of the Gamtoos River, pushing more water into the already flooded system. By tomorrow morning that channel will look somewhat different than now... Hats of to the team of workers of Mondplaas who saved the day!
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Beaver dam busting , Drain clearing, Flash floods, and now river breaching , I think I need some Professional help
No idea why the fuck I want to keep seeing these as well.
Now you have laser metal cleaning, river ice jam breakage, and overgrown yard clean-up to add to your list of things that satisfy for reasons we can't quite explain.
look up post10
I think you at this point could call yourself a professional that can help.... In specific scenarios 🤣😂😅
@@prunedfingers I imagine being a fan of post10 is what led me here...
Are you sure they were really farmers? They look more like they're on the government payroll. A dozen blokes doing the work, 3 dozen standing around watching. 😊 Great video, thanks.
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Spent many of my childhood days in that lagoon. We used to have a house up on the hill to the left, as you face the sea. Such wonderful memories of that place....
Any colords in your hood?
@@jonnywatts2970 🤣
my home! I live at the Gamtoos River mouth and am so impressed by the work our community has done!
I did this once by myself with no tools. I just thought it would be fun to see the river run into the ocean. It's not that hard to do.
"We moved thirty yards of dirt by manual labor only to discover that it wouldn't flow".
Coz people are dumb.
It will flow and end up with waves big enough to surf. The problem is that this is illegal in many places, for a reason.
Your being so extra careful. So I can't sense Who You Are.
There's so much beauty in ordinary things.
I agree!
If you have an IG account, you may follow @ordinaryphotographer_.
Ive dug out a bunch of rivers around the world dozens of times. Heres a HUGE tip that will save a lot of effort. Dig from the river side toward the ocean! I have dug out channels by myself that were this far away from the ocean, as you go, the river water keeps the sand wet and softens it and makes it easy to just scoop out of the way, so that gravity can take over. You only need a little bit of water, and gravity does the rest. This video shows such a waste of effort digging from the ocean to the river.
Excellent cinematography...👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
I went from a tsunami video to this. Well that was a let down.
Bruh Chinese cyanide explosion to seniors day at the beach
Dude was it the one where you thought the glacier was the tsunami.lol
waterFALLS. seaLEvEL .
Still Waters always LEvEL,
Dr.🌏ip
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exAMEN 🌈 FirmAmenT
Lmaooo me too! I was watching tsunami videos and ended up here lol
Don't let this breach video fool you. Most of them get raging. This was the least exciting coastal river breach I've ever seen.
My 5YO daughter does a 1/10 scale version of that every weekend at the beach.
A future hydrologist?
River in South Africa. Used heavily for agriculture which is probably why it periodically stops short of draining into the ocean. Depending on the year and seasonal rainfall the outlet into the ocean varies over time especially since it drains through a sandy beach.
makes sense.
This was very important for the farmers.
looks like someone got a drone for christmas and cant stop playing with it
Yeah, lol
Anyone see there was a much closer bit to dig at up the beach?
Thank you
Its so sickening that the people need permission for something like this ! The people around here would not have even asked and would not have waited either . Government has become a cancer to all ! I wonder if the people will ever do anything about it ? I doubt it....
Looks like most construction work. More than half are standing around watching the others do the work!
(Yes, I know that’s not happening. It just fits into that narrative. I supervised underground construction and I would limit how many supervisors, assistant managers, managers, support crews, parts runners and any other people not immediately needed to be on a job site because the crew doing the work were one crewleader and two laborers. Only one laborer was actually digging and the other keeping the spoils away from the excavation. The crewleader was responsible for the two laborers. It definitely looks bad to the public and adding another couple for traffic control didn’t help the visuals, either.)
How come all these rivers in South Africa cannot find their way naturally to the ocean. What is man doing? I'm confused.
Why?
Fantastic video and good luck to those farmers who sure need it.
@@redimixofmd Rather be a fool than a tool!!😂 C.U.Next Tuesday.
100% of human intervention in nature prooved lomg-term distructive.
This is a tiny trench dug in the sand. It would had happened naturally maybe in a few weeks, but still, the full implications were never thought upon by no one.
In that few weeks crops and homes could be lost to floods. Sandbars shift and grow. Digging a trench to help nature along is goid husbandry, along with dredging to prevent too much silting up at the river mouth. Flood plains provide good soil when correctly mabaged.
WOW!!! A lot of time and energy.
I bet 80% of these people have a child at home glued to a smartphone.
Reconnecting mother nature. I love it🎉
please upload a part 2 🙏🏼
Great job
why do they breach it?
i have seen several videos of doing the same act but what's the ultimate goal of doing this???
Ask your mother to read you the description of the clip.
@@dunruden9720 👍🤪🤣😆😝
Well that's three minutes I can't get back to life
then just go outside
4 by the time you've made your comment...
только я не понял зачем соединять солёную воду и пресную. там же живность в реке помрёт.
too bad they couldnt put in a pernament structure with removable boards . when time comes , remove the boards . i feel though that would be too expensive .
Wow overkill on the trench! They could have just scrapped a small path with one shovel. Half hour job, one man.
Exactly!
Nature: *doing its thing*
People: HURRY UP
If water is on a larger surface then a bigger amount will evaporate and there will be more clouds. More clouds means more rain for a green planet.
what for?
So how long did it take to lower the level of the river?
That took alot of hard work. It looked beautiful while it was flowing. ♥️🌊🌍♥️
if only there were machines to do that...
@@mucsalto8377 race card.
By the time you find the equipment and the trailer and get it there they have been done for 2 hours......imagine that.
LogicSword3675 they are called bulldozers
Then those people wouldn’t have to get any pesky exercise
Are you the guy that drinks all the alcohol at the party by 8:00 pm, and they just stuff you in the corner with a 5 gallon bucket?
Pls keep updating on the gamtoos rivier mouth🙏
why does this seem so amazing
The teamwork part of it makes me happy especially with the way the world is these days
It’s not
Video too short. Didn't show how wide the pathway went
I remember digging for fun.
oki great but now the ocean will have too much fresh water and will be less salty and like the ocean will rise now and flood venice, both italy and california
Just two questions.
1. What for?
2. There is excavator?
A beautiful community doing a beautiful thing. 🇺🇸❤️👍🏻
finally a lovely comment :)
Смысл какой ?
Why so much work???? I tiny trench 1 tenth of that size would have done the very same thing without all that work. And I like how they were piling up the sand like they were going to throw it back in later on...
There was a old man that did the same thing in Australia but just used his walking cane.....
Can we see an updated video from the same spot?
Great jobs, comunity, excelent !
Baie mooi. 'n bomel ("drone") is beslis op my wenslysie!!!
How is it there was no one surfing that
It is amazing what we can do together.
Bruce Sees all there’s like ONE dude doing it all wtf are you talking about. Half the people in the video were standing around.
I'm guessing machinery wasn't an option?
@@mucsalto8377 I get it man. It's social media and everyone can say whatever unfortunately. But considering the vast majority are white you wanna try again?
What was the accomplishment ahead?
Besides the fact that, given enough time, mother nature would have made her own path.... Without their help 🤷🏻♀️
@@-Gadget- read the description you waste of braincells
how come South Africa has so many rivers like this?
1:24 wowwww what a beautiful scene of nature
У меня только один вопрос...
Nice flying!
Well that was a waste of three minutes,Thanks.
I wonder if someone should tell them they just need a small downward gash, they water will do the rest.
So cross contamination of 2 water masses?
This is so needed for the marine life - thank you to everyone that helped with this - good job!
Marine life🤔
So the life that was in the river got dumped to ocean salt water tooooo die 🤔👌✌
@@sosweetbaby4 you do realise fish can swim and instinct directs them to theur best environment? Also other life forms have their own methods of staying put/regenerating cyclically.
By hand. Determination. Kudos.
Oh. A couple quick shots of after two days.
OK, but why?
why is it done actually? is there a reason? or just fun?
The last frame proves flatearthers wrong.
What is the point?? It will fill itself back in probably in one day. They don’t have excavation equipment there? Who digs a trench by hand these days?
if you can't afford digging equipment and your farming land is flooding up, but you have an arsenal of farm boys at your hand. Then I'd dig it by hand than instead of even not digging it at all.
J Bay is always beautiful
Great video! Good job.
This is confusing? What was the purpose? If the river was about to be flooded it would have made a breach anyway.
This was my thought exactly. It was on the verge of creating its own path, but I guess that's what you get when people with more money than brains build their home away from home, too close to the river edge, and they start getting ansy 🤷🏻♀️
@@-Gadget- did you read the description?
@@s1e_dm The answer to your question is "Yes", hence my comment. If the Groot River was about to flood more water into the lock, it would have forced the break..... All on its own. So my question stands.
Did you bother reading the description?
@@-Gadget- then you should know that these people's income and livelihood depends on their land, so then breaching the groot river early stops their land from flooding. Even if the groot river would flood and create it's own breach, by that time it would have flooded the farmers land.
@@s1e_dm So, then this was all due to the poor planing of the farmers that chose land below a known flood plain.
Why didn't you just say that to begin with, as it would have save all this time and effort 🤷🏼♂️
Why??
To show you how humans are stupid!! Always to destroy the beauty of our wonderful planet!
Just curious. What's the purpose of doing this?
you dont need to dig such a big hole. we did this as a kids with our feet and let the water do the rest
When tree and bunny huggers come up with a plan.
WAAAH WAAW
0:17 WW1 flashbacks
The fuck
@@vishalSharma-ol9fl Filling sandbags.
fresh water is so scares - Why would breach the river and empty it in the sea ? lower the river level and lessen the habitat for millions of small and big animals and fishes along the river ? i don't get it ......
that isn't fresh water
Why cant it be done at St Lucia
Maybe they should've let nature do it's thing. Would've been more beautiful to see that in action.
Was the point of this excersize to pollute the ocean?
READ the description provided.
This is illegal as it will lead to loss of sea shore land !
I'm guessing not Det cord available....
But why? Maybe the water didn’t want to go that way.
Why didn't the town do this? Hopefully that farm runoff isn't full of nitrates, pesticides and fecal matter.
What was the point of that ..... ?
I can dig this idea.
Yooo an actually funny comment :D
50 people an no one has access to a backhoe?
@@mucsalto8377 thank you; I was trying to figure out from the guys standing around in cutoffs doing nothing AND the extra long introduction that doesn't show where TF this is going on, and was sure it was in some southern US state shithole.
What's the reason?
Is this why another video on youtube says africa is sinking?
Why do they do this what is the purpose for it
Evil, evil sand would not let rivrr meet its friend ocean. People helped and now river is so happy.
Let the river reach naturally to the sea......
Read the description
My kingdom for a backhoe!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that horrible for the environment?
All this work then doesn’t show us it in full flow :(
was there a point to that?
Why do that ?
read the description
@@mizzury54 yea yea gotcha
Profundidade e pouca pra dar está vazão para está água toda aí.
But why?
Why didn't they bring in a digger?
They had 100 of them
Is that rainfed river or backwater?
What was the point of this?
If you had read the description, the farmland was flooded. So they got permission to open a channel between the river and the ocean to allow the river to drain.
Point was nunya
His reply 😂😂😂
@@motherofone1 you need permission to play on the beach now?
@@flashforensics looking at the history, the residents did this in 2015, but without permission, and the illegal bit is breaching the river mouth, not going on the beach. The local office of the Department of Environmental Affairs apparently filed a complaint with the police. This time (2018), they got permission.
So this is how the trench wars were expirienced
Diggin like it’s 1914
This is veeeryy dangerous. What if the water had flown in the opposite direction? The whole sea would have spilled over the country!
To bad you didn't get footage of the following day.